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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 10h

I have also … never wanted to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? And still don’t. Everything about this is horrible.

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 10h

Someone posted a few years back that we’d now PASSED the wealth inequality they had then and I was a bit 👀

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 10h

It is both the first birthday of Prince of Fortune AND the paperback release day so obviously, I had to make a cake #booksky

Image is a piece of cake with blue icing to match the tiny toy copy of Prince of Fortune on top of it. There is a big copy of the book behind it

Image is an elaborately iced cake saying “happy release day”

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't know how you see a story like this and think "yes, this is exactly the kind of technology I want in the classroom."

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 1d

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

www.nbcwashington.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Prince of Fortune hits the UK on November 7, and I'm very excited!!!!! #YAfantasy

Image is the silhouettes from the cover of the queer young adult romantasy novel Prince of Fortune with the UK flag superimposed on top of it and the text "One month to go!"

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 8d

You’re welcome!

Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 10d

Okay the kindle and paperback versions will be another couple of weeks, but: NEW QUEER YA NOVELLA.

I'm genuinely very proud of this one. Thank you to @erinkyan.bsky.social and @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social for saying such nice things about it. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE HERE: www.maryborsellino.com/girl/

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 10d

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

🤢🤮

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Aaaaand we have ten instances of the word Champagne. All have to go, since ... this world has no France and therefore no Champagne region. I love revising. It isn't annoying at all.

Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Really, really want to use the phrase "a stranger in a strange land" in this thing I'm writing but am forcing myself not to since that's decidedly biblical and this is second-world fantasy. Am I gritting my teeth? Who can say #writing

Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Really, really want to use the phrase "a stranger in a strange land" in this thing I'm writing but am forcing myself not to since that's decidedly biblical and this is second-world fantasy. Am I gritting my teeth? Who can say #writing

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Can I please just be clear that I talked about hieroglyphs on rolling pins in THIS MONTH's newsletter: it isn't something I talk about ... every month. That would be a bit weird, I think. Also here are some cookies made with said rolling pin.

Image is sugar cookies in the shape of hearts with hieroglyphs on them, and also some in the shape of hello kitty

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

I am laughing so hard rn lollllll

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 15d

I should stop posting about politics and AI on here and post about my book, And tell people to sign up for my newsletter, huh

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15d

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15d

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 18d

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 21d

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.

The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.

Excellent

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands

In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.

www.reuters.com

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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 22d

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 23d

And that REALLY should be the end of this. They’ll literally never work out the bugs.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 23d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 25d

"I exist" whoa slow down why are you bringing politics into this

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 24d

Ooh like what?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 28d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · Sep 14

What the hell is even happening right now. Ten years ago you could not have said this in public. The Overton window hasn’t shifted, it’s broken

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 14

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for advocating the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 14

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

To be a person of consequence is to matter. If you matter, you
have rights, and your words serve those rights and give you the
power to bear witness, make agreements, set boundaries. If you
have consequence, your words possess the authority to determine
what does and does not happen to you, the power that underlies the
concept of consent as part of equality and self- determination.
Even legally women’s words have lacked consequence: in only a
few scattered places on earth could women vote before the twenti-
eth century, and not so many decades ago, women rarely became
lawyers and judges; I met a Texas woman whose mother was
among the first women in their region to serve on a jury, and I was
an adult when the first woman was appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Until a few decades ago, wives throughout much of the
world, including the United States, lacked the right to make con-
tracts and financial decisions or even to exercise jurisdiction over
their own bodies that overrode their husbands’ ability to do so; in
some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and
others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to
speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though
you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as
though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say some-
thing and have it not matter than to be silent.

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no. @joles.bsky.social · May 5

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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